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First, go to http://rating-widget.com/contribute-rating-design/ and create a custom design sprite according to the design instructions. Then, upload your sprites to your host (so it could be access via url address). Finally, open your WP management dashboard. There, open the ratings settings and select the rating type you would like to customize. Now, scroll to the bottom and activate the Power User Settings. Paste the following code into the box to set up the new design:

First of all – go and change your theme, customize it to make it look beautiful. Once you’ve changed the theme, all you need to do is go to Embed the Code and follow the instructions – it’s the exact same process that you’ve already done after adding the app.

No need to worry! Your data is secure & safe. It’s directly related to your store and products. So after you’ll Embed the Code to the new theme, all the ratings will immediately get back with as they used to.

We created a special shortcode you can use inside your posts / pages editor.

For post ratings:

Current post rating - [ratingwidget]

Specified post rating - [ratingwidget post_id=123]

For page ratings:

Current page rating - [ratingwidget type="page"]

Specified page rating - [ratingwidget type="page" post_id=123]

For random ratings (not bound to any page/post):

Rating - [ratingwidget_raw id="1" title="my-title" type="page"]

Rich-Snippets support:
If you are using our Professional or Business plan which supports Rich-Snippets integration, and you want that the rendered rating will have the relevant schema, please add the add_schema=true attribute to the shortcode. For example:[ratingwidget post_id=123 add_schema=true]

Note: If you already have a rating with schema.org on the same page, adding additional rating with schema.org metadata will confuse search engines, and will cause your ratings disappear from SERP.

When using bbPress together with BuddyPress, forum topics & replies posting are automatically generating activity updates for BuddyPress’ users activity feed. We call these activity updates - Activity Forum Posts. For maximal customization flexibility, we allow admin’s to customize the ratings style for each view so bbPress forum ratings in the activity feed can look different from the ratings in the forum section.

In order to prevent from multiple votes from the same visitor (check out the topic about voting frequency here), our default identification technique is cookies. We leverage both regular HTTP cookie and LSO (Local shared object a.k.a Flash Cookie) to uniquely mark the visitor’s device. As you probably figured out, it’s very simple to clean your cookies or use incognito mode, to actually make more than one vote from the same device. Thus, if fraud votes is a critical issue for you, our premium product support additional identification methods:

By IP: These visitor identification method means that by default only one vote can be contributed from the IP. The advantage of this method is that it’s much harder to change IPs than cookies (requires some hacking skills but possible using proxies, etc.). The disadvantage is that different visitors who are using the same NAT (E.g. same router device), won’t be able to vote more than once.

By Login: We provide a very useful JavaScript callback called beforeRate, you can use it to force a login to your site before being able to rate. Note: These method is also not 100% safe and could be hacked.

By Social Login: Before a visitor can rate, he is required to connect his social identify with RatingWidget (currently we’ve implemented Facebook Connect). We believe this is the most safe identification method for many reasons. The main one is that in order to make fraud/fake vote – it requires a new social identity (creating of social identity takes time, requires unique email, etc.). The disadvantage of this method is that it significantly reduces the number of votes (some people don’t like to connect their social identity with external services).

Hell Yeah! It’s always awesome that our community contribute designs. Because of cool people like you we have the largest ratings themes collection on the web! Before you send it to provision at [email protected], please make sure the design is built correctly with the help of this page:http://rating-widget.com/contribute-rating-design/

Now, to embed RatingWidget to your Collection pages, find the liquid file that is responsible for the collection template (the template file may have different names depending on the theme you are using, but usually it’s named collection.liquid). There, add the following ratings snippet exactly where you want the ratings to appear:

{% include 'rw-rating' %}

Wasn’t that simple?! If you have no clue about coding or liquid files modification, feel free to contact us. Our Shopify experts would be happy to do it for you for a symbolic setup fee.